black friday crowd control?

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So my srt accidentally let it slip to me that all targets opening at 12 am are going to be doing crowd control by letting 25 people in at 12:00 am, waiting 5 minutes, letting another 25 in, waiting 5 minutes, and so on? Was he messing with me or has anybody else heard this?

Cart Magician turned GSTL

I had to do spots crowd control training and I can confirm that is true. I seem to remember that it will be 25 people at a time but I thought the interval was only supposed to be 30 seconds. I could be wrong though...

We are doing the same as Mr Quickstart,imagine if you waited five mins between each lot the crowd would never get in,hope this new time works out as regards sales,if not the outlook will be very negative.

I know that certain stores in the Portland area will be strictly enforcing this with police officers because they're so worried about guests and team members getting trampled.

One example being that the East Portland store (aka, mall 205) just remodeled and put their electronics and department upstairs next to toys. The ETL from that store was very concerned about safety about that.

Former Signing Ninja

I'm doing crowd control and pulsing was one of the things we were trained on.
It's only for the first 15 minutes then we let people in like normal.
I'm glad I have some of the biggest and meanest looking back room guys backing me up.

we're doing 30 guests every 30 seconds just for the first little bit so we don't have a ton of people running through the store. We're also having a cop plus all of our AP team members are working.
I also live in the area of the petition and there's been tons of news coverage about it so we've had people calling telling us they were protesting so we're prepared for that too.

If they do that then they have to enforce limits on doorbusters. The first 25 people get an advantage getting the higher demand items than the #26 person not fair. Just open the door and let the people have at it I say, plus it makes for better black Friday youtube videos the next morning.

I swear, all this commercialism has turned people into animals on Black Friday. I was originally hired as seasonal last year, and my first week of non-training was the week of Thanksgiving. Seeing the people walking into the store like that scared the hell out of me. Then I heard later that someone got trampled at another store in our district.

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Ludwig3

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I swear, all this commercialism has turned people into animals on Black Friday. I was originally hired as seasonal last year, and my first week of non-training was the week of Thanksgiving. Seeing the people walking into the store like that scared the hell out of me. Then I heard later that someone got trampled at another store in our district.

Founder

I find it stupid, last year went just fine. Each year we have had a PD presence and made it clear to all the people in the front of the line that there is NO running and that there is NO pushing and have never had a problem.

Another stupid thing our "crowd control" team is doing is preventing anyone without an electronics purchase to not line up in the electronics line. Problem with that is there is NOTHING we are locking up but the iPods!